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J. BARNETT.

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SKID.

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PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES BARNETT, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

SKID.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,507, dated June 3, 1884.

Application filed November 30, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it -known that I, JAMES BARNETT, of Louisville, Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Skids, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates more particularly to such skids as are used inhandling flasks, especially double flasks, for the molding of castiron pipes; and the object is the production of skids on which the flask can be readily dumped of the sand and pipe, and then, from one side, and without being turned over, clamped ready for transfer to the ramming-pit, thus saving time and laborand preventing breakage.

To this end the invention consists in combining in my improved skids an upper horizontal face, on which to dump the flask, an inclined face on which to slide it, and an upright lug, against which the flask is held in position to be clamped.

The accompanying drawing is a birds-eye view of a set of skids of my invention.

. Aare the legs of the skids. B is their inclined face. 0 is the body of the skids. D are plates on which the skids rest. E is the horizontal face of the skids. F are thelugs, against which the flask rests in position for clamping. The different positions the flask is made to assume on the skids are indicated by the dotted outlines H and I, and the chain by which the flask is swung is shown by the dotted outline L in the drawing.

The skids heretofore in use with moldingflasks are furnished only with horizontal faces as rests for the flask, and with such skids, in

order to clamp the flask, itis necessary either to turn it over, by which it is liable to be broken, or the workman, after clamping one side, must move around to the other side of the flask to be in position to clamp it. My invention obviates these disadvantages.

In practice, with my improved skids, after the flask is swung out of the casting-pit, the clamps knocked off, and the flask, which is hinged at one side, dumped of the sand and pipe on the horizontal faces Eof the skids, the flask is closed and slid down the inclined faces B to and rests in an inclined position,with one side higher than the other, against the lugs F, so presenting both sides for clamping to the workman that from one and the same side of the flask he can readily and quickly perform the whole operation without turning or moving the flask, thus saving time and labor and preventing breakage of flasks.

I prefer to make the skids of cast-iron, casting the body, legs, and plates of each half in one piece, and then strengthening by riveting onto one side a wrought-iron piece conforming in shape to the body and lug, as shown in the drawing.

Having fully described my inventiomwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination in skids of the horizontal faces E, the inclined faces B, and the lugs F, V 

